The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-03-10
HENRY WARD BEEcHER died in Brook

HENRY WARD BEEcHER died in Brook
lyn on Tuesday morning at $50. He was
taken sick on Thursday night though he
retired to bed feeling as well as usual.
Through the night he had fit of vomit-
ing and after this he slept until o'clock
Friday afternoon. Some difficulty was
found in awaking him and it was then
found what was supposed to be sleep was
largely stupor. Soon his left side be-
came paralyzed and he sank into coma
tose state in which condition he remained
until he died. He was 10 years of age.
There is no spot in the civilized world
where the news of Henry Ward Beecher's
death Will not bring regret. There never
lived man in whom sympathy for man.
kind more completely broke down the
barriers of prejudice, which in turn won
him the regard of all denominations, of
all classes of all peoples. Beecher was
hold as the devoted parent is, because his
love could dare anything. He broke
through forms which fettered the catho-
| hcity of his mind and submitted every
| thing to the test of its power to contrib
ute happiness. He did things which
| would be classed as sensational in other
men but with him they were the natural
| outgrowth of broad humanity and en-
| lightened hberaity. A man of the peo-
| pie in the midst of aristocrats, he preach
| ed the gospel of equality not In the man
ner of intellectual analysis or to win
notoriety by startling prejudice, but nat
urally as became the color of his thought
and because the doctrine had its roots in
his soul.
Beecher's power came through the
heart and he had as warm one as ever
beat in the human breast. He was
| eloquent because he had feeling; he ig-
nored convention because he was guided
| by sympathy too strong for form to
govern; and he stood ready to follow the
banner of Charity though it led forever
from the line of precedent. Love was his
theology and to him it seemed as if it
was Gods chief attribute. With the
strength of strong impulse he denied the
existence of a He'll because the very
thought was a libel upon his God.
Every fiber of his being was so repellent
that he set his impulse against the
authority OF the church and felt that
humanity was safer guide than doctrine.
And this was Beecher in everything.
He detied everything which ran counter
to humanity and justice; not with
bravado, not with affrOntery nor with
affectation of heroic attitude, but as a
man whose very soul is stirred with the
conviction he is right. Whether pleading
the cause of the Negro or the Irishman
his advocacy was not the less earnest
because he had prejudice to contend
against nor did his courage finch from
championing the lowly and oppressed
when he met in the lists the powerful and
the naughty His powers did not come
from conscious strength but from impuls-
i've benevolence which never counts the
cost or the odds.
Measured by the good he has done in q
line in which heroism is scarce, Henry
Ward Beecher deserves to rank with the
great men of the world. intellectually
he had few superiors but one loses sight
Of these powers in admiration of the work
of which they were the instruments. His
emotional nature controlled his intellect
ual and gave us philauthropist whose
powers were exercised for the good OF
man. Otherwise he would be a mar
whose thoughts were intellectual gems
the delight Of scholars AS man he was
the friend of man and as such history
will know him.